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Re:Centre for Applied Eschatology by fny on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:47AM (#25079678)
The messaging here is extremely confusing. Are these guys promoting the world's end, predicting it, or preventing it?
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Re:Centre for Applied Eschatology by closeparen on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:08AM (#25079790)
>dedicated to ending the world

>OUR MISSION: To accelerate the world's transition to non-being.

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Re:Centre for Applied Eschatology by Ygg2 on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:51AM (#25079698)
I think it is a play on corporate or NGO messaging. Hence the focus on agnostic, diversity and non-partisan in their materials.

Basically, Doomer Corp.

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Re:Centre for Applied Eschatology by andrewflnr on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:54AM (#25079710)
Check out the faq, especially starting at question 5.

https://www.appliedeschatology.com/faqs

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Re:Centre for Applied Eschatology by jsmith99 on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:38AM (#25080333)
My favourite was 'How can I help?' with response 'You are surely helping already'.
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Re:Centre for Applied Eschatology by bottlenecked on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:30AM (#25079930)
Reminds of this[0] so not so sure it’s not made tongue in cheek

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16953005

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